reconcilable

Example Sentences

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But post pandemic and post energy crisis, the priorities of three years ago may not be fully reconcilable with the immediate tough decisions now required.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2022

Again, these characters are not people I analyze; they’re pieces of verbal artifice I invent, and whose almost limitless complications I try—again, using words—to make reconcilable.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 30, 2018

What Boston demonstrated was that the twin dreams of making Olympics hosting more egalitarian and more affordable may ultimately not be reconcilable.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2016

Exploitation and oppression didn't go away, but the system seemed not only powerful and dynamic, but reconcilable with democratic ideals.

From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2013

Bevil’s supposed consent to marry is followed by no consequence; and his honest dissimulation, as he calls it, is less reconcilable to the philosophic turn of his character, than to the natural sensibility of Pamphilus.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John